QSR1918/4/3/8

REX -v- Joseph Baker - Notice Of Prevention of Crime Act, 1908 - Habitual Criminal

26th September 1918

From: 1918 To: 1918

Headed Notepaper – Director of Public Prosecutions Department Any further communication on the subject of this letter should be addressed to:- The Director of Public Prosecutions, Whitehall. London S.W. And the following number quoted 27H.C. of 1918. Whitehall, London S.W., 26th September 1918 Sir, REX -v- Joseph Baker I beg to enclose formal Notice under Section 10 (4) (b) of the Prevention of Crime Act 1908, to you, Officer of the Court, of the fact that it is intended to charge Joseph Baker with being a Habitual Criminal at the Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions to be holden at Bedford on the 9th October next. I am forwarding to Mr. E. M. Austin, Solicitors Bedford my formal Consent under Section 10 (4) (a) to the preferring of that charge, and also formal notice to the prisoner in accordance with Section 10 (4) (b) for service forthwith upon the prisoner under the Statute, together with a copy of such Notice for endorsement as to service. I shall be obliged if you will, at the conclusion of the trial, kindly inform me of the result. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant Charles W. Mathews. Director of Public Prosecutions The Clerk of the Peace for Bedfordshire, Bedford.

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Baker, Joseph,
Austin, E.M.,
Mathews, Charles W.

Whitehall, Prevention of Crime Act 1908, Habitual Criminals Act 1869